Comment by James Stevenson. Almost, almost spring--writer heads uptown along Central Park West in the Sixties, watching people go to work and children go to school, on an alternately cloudy, sunny day. The brightest colors belong to people already at work: blue and green hard hats, red-pink Day-Glo flags, orange and...

The Theatre by Edith Oliver.

The Current Cinema by Penelope Gilliatt. Review of "Furtivos", directed by Jose Luis Borau...

A Reporter at Large I-THE SNOW LEOPARD by Peter Matthiessen. REPORTER AT LARGE about a journey, beginning in late Sept., 1973, to the Crystal Mountain. Writer walked west under Annapurna and north along the Kali Gandaki River then west & north again, around the Dhaulagiri peaks & across the Kanjiroba, 200 miles or more to the Land of Dolpo, on...

U. S. Journal CONCERNED CITIZENS by Calvin Trillin. U.S. JOURNAL: BAYOU LA BATRE, ALABAMA about influx of Moonies(members of the Unification Church) in Bayou La Batre, a small clannish town in the Alabama bayous. The church is known for brainwashing its converts, connections with the Korean CIA, and the lavish mansions of its leader, Sun Myung Moon...

Fiction Arthuree by Berry Morgan. Arthuree is the preferred name of John Henry Stoner, brother to the narrator, who left home, married Livia from Vicksburg, and hasn't seen his Mama since. Local references and loose narrative style suggest a Southern setting. Arthuree is illiterate, but he makes a good living as a pulper, a truck...

The Talk of the Town Start Your Own Business by Ian Frazier. Talk story about 20th Annual Start Your Own Business Exposition at the Coliseum. Writer gives quick run-down of figures behind franchise of a Foto Fun computer portrait machine, Murray the K's Disco on Wheels, Universal Jewelry Exchange, U.S. Marble (they made sin molds, you make sinks), and the Zachary...

Books by John Updike.

The Talk of the Town Honors by Jamaica Kincaid. Talk story about party in honor of J. Barney Ferguson, Grand Marshal of the 1978 St. Patrick's Day Parade. James Bernard Ferguson is a policeman, in homicide, who has three broken bones in his back from chasing a murder suspect last year. J. Barney Ferguson had his picture taken at...

Fiction Someone Has Been Disarranging These Roses by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. It is Sunday, and the narrator wants to take roses to the grave where his body as a child is buried. He sits in a chair in the corner of the house where he lived as a child. Forty years have passed since the day in August when he was...

Around City Hall AROUND CITY HALL REPRESENTATION by Andy Logan. New York's representatives in the House have been ineffective in getting aid for New York City for several reasons: Many Congressmen who held influential positions in congress have left for other political posts. Congressmen from New York have been involved in foreign affairs rather than for NYC. Congressmen from New...

The Talk of the Town M.C.B. by Anthony Hiss. Talk story about Ernest M. Frimbo's visit backstage at the St. James Theatre to appraise Robin Wagner's stage sets for "On the Twentieth Century," a musical which takes place on a train. Judy Kaye is understudy to Madeline Kahn, who has the role of leading lady. Judy Kaye played the...

The Race Track by G. F. T. Ryall. If you wonder how Alydar got his name, Mrs. Gene Markey who owns Calumet Farm and enjoys naming her horse, put the first three letters of Aly Khan (a son of the Aga Khan and a friend of the family) together with the first three letters of the word "darling...

Poetry In Back Of by Linda Pastan. In back of "I love you...

Poetry Parents by William Meredith. What it must be like to be an angel...